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I just spilled wax on my carpet!

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Bright blue, VERY fragrant Scentsy wax. I was on the floor making samples of Mays Scent of the Month, Mystery Man (AMAZING, by the way!). I accidentally knocked over my melting pot, spilling wax all over my beige carpet. Side note: You know you are in a position of leadership and education when a cleaning catastrophe occurs and you immediately yell, "WAIT! Don't start cleaning that up yet. I need to get my phone. I can make a blog post about this to help my team and customers." PS: KLEENEX is ineffective in this situation. ;) So what do you do when this catastrophe occurs? Stay calm. Get a glass of wine. And these other items: A roll of paper towels An iron A clean paper source (I used some Scentsy packing paper since I had it laying around, but a paper bag does the trick just fine!) Some carpet cleaner (not always necessary, but usually is with the darker, highly pigmented wax. First, take a few sheets of paper towels and soak up what you can by yourself....
Some of the many reasons I love my scentsy business: 1) My entire life, from the time that I can even remember dreaming, I've always wanted a job where I can travel. Scentsy certainly fills my passport, and provides me with as many travel opportunities as I want to take. I can take any or none, it's completely up to me. But it has to be one of my favorite parts of my job. 2) Im becoming the person I've always wanted to be. I've spent the better part of my entire life battling a sense of worthiness, insecurities, and staving off the inner beast that tells me that I'm not good enough. Slowly but surely, over the course of the past five years, since I let this wonderful company into my life, I'm winning the battle with all of these things. 3) Scentsy plays to my strengths. I'm a good talker, I like to be in front of people. I'm a storyteller, and a natural born leader. All of these things have worked wonderfully in my favor. PS: I had no idea I...